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Structure of Mafia crime family. The boss in the Sicilian and Italian-American Mafia is the head of the crime family and the top decision maker. Only the boss, can initiate an associate into the family however the boss can give permission to an underboss, consigliere or a captain, allowing them to become a made man.
Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and fined $250,000. John Joseph Gotti Jr.[ 1][ note 1] ( / ˈɡɒti / GOT-ee, Italian: [ˈɡɔtti]; October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002) was an American mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. He ordered and helped to orchestrate the murder of Gambino boss Paul Castellano ...
Joseph "Big Joey" Massino (born 1943), first boss of one of the Five Families in New York City to turn state's evidence; Francesco Matrone (born 1947), serving two life sentences in prison; Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff (born 1960), serving life sentence in prison; Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino (born 1962), serving two-year prison sentence
Nicholas "Nick" Morello – boss (1909–1916) killed in 1916. Vincenzo "Vincent" Terranova – boss (1916–1920) Giuseppe "Joe the boss" Masseria – boss (1920–1931) Charlie "Lucky" Luciano – boss (1931–1946) Frank "The Prime Minister" Costello – acting boss (1936–1945), boss (1946–1957) "Don" Vito Genovese – underboss (1931 ...
Umberto " Albert " Anastasia[ 3] ( / ˌænəˈsteɪʒə /, Italian: [umˈbɛrto anastaˈziːa]; né Anastasio [anaˈstaːzjo]; September 26, 1902 – October 25, 1957) was an Italian-American mobster, hitman and crime boss. One of the founders of the modern American Mafia, and a co-founder and later boss of the Murder, Inc. organization, he ...
The Five Families – operate in New York City, the New York Metropolitan area, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Florida, California and Nevada. [ 2] Bonanno. Colombo. Gambino. Genovese. Lucchese. Western New York. Buffalo crime family (Magaddino family)
The three men imposed a tax on all goods sold in the city's Italian community. In 1924, Vito Giannola became the most powerful Mafia boss in St. Louis forcing Dominick Giambrone to flee the city. [3] Giannola attempted to take control of the bootlegging rackets in the area and fought with members of the Egan's Rats gang and Cuckoos Gang. [3]
The Pittsburgh crime family, [ 4] also known as the LaRocca crime family[ 5] or the Pittsburgh Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [ 1][ 6] The LaRocca family is one of the original 26 Mafia families in the United States. [ 7] The boss and last known "made" member of the family, Thomas "Sonny ...